The first duty of a novelist is to entertain. If you don't entertain, then all the deeper stuff is lost.
— Stephen King Contemporary

Horror fiction

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Attributed, often in interviews

Date / Period

Approx. 1990s-2000s

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https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/14001-the-first-duty-of-a-novelist-is-to-entert…

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Found in 1 providers: grok

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